More from the Dark Water: Lumbee Women’s Poetry
Friday from the Archives: “The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women’s Poetry” by Jessica Cory from NCLR 32 (2023).
News
Thomas Wolfe Society Welcomes Clyde Edgerton Home to Durham
This month, a blog post from one of our longtime editorial board members:
“I suspected that perhaps I was being made the butt of some Kafkaesque joke, but here I was, so I tapped on the door and was instructed by a voice brimming with barely suppressed laughter to ‘come on in.’”—George Hovis
NC Writers’ Network Spring Conference
NCLR will have a booth at the NCWN Spring Conference in Greensboro. And save the date: 5/13, Cherokee, NC: A Celebration of Cherokee writing from NCLR 2023
Abbate reviews Rice
Saturday Review: “Poetry of Place” a review by Chris Abbate in NCLR Online Winter 2024 of Forever Eighty-Eights (2022) by Molly Rice
Women Supporting Women Writing About Women
Friday from the Archives: “Therese Anne Fowler and Maligned Women: Setting the Story Straight on Zelda Fitzgerald and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont” an Interview by Sheryl Cornett from NCLR 27 (2018).
The Editor Shares Her Teaching Notes
Teaching Elaine Neil Orr’s Swimming Between Worlds Topics for class discussion GROUP DISCUSSIONS TEAM Tacker TEAM Kate
Lang reviews White
Saturday Review: “Writing The Hurt” a review by John Lang in NCLR Online Winter 2024 of Charles Dodd White. A Year without Months (2022)
Multicultural from the very start
Friday from the Archives: “North Carolina’s Multicultural Beginnings in History and Lore” by E. Thomson Shields from NCLR 13 (2004). By Amber Knox
NCLR at Appalachian Studies in March
NCLR has a table at the Appalachian Studies Association Conference. Say hello!
Monday Memories: Magical Realism in NC
Prepping for this interview, I had perused my bookshelves thinking, Now which of these Southern writers are from North Carolina? Then I grabbed a slim volume by Fred Chappell to read on the plane…